Timeline of Educational Technology in Schools Infographic

It’s amazing how quickly technology changes, even in the course of six months. But can you imagine how much it has changed over decades? The Timeline of Educational Technology in Schools Infographic shows how educational technology has evolved in schools over the past 114 years.

1900 – 1920 – Age of the One-room Schoolhouse

1923 – Radios were introduced to classrooms; major cities established classroom instruction on radios – penmanship, accounting, history and arithmetic were included

1930s – overhead projectors initially used for US military training purposes quickly spread to schools

1933 – 52% of schools were using silent films and 3% were using sound films

1939 – the first TV appeared in a classroom in LA; now the most widely used technology in schools

1950 – Headphones became popular in schools and stations used to listen to audio tapes were dubbed ‘language labs’

1964 – BASIC developed at Dartmouth College with the intent to give students a simple programming language that was easy-to-learn

1967 – Texas Instruments develops the handheld calculator

1967 – LOGO programming language developed

1972 – Scantron – automatically graded multiple choice examples

1973 – The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (later Corporation), most commonly known as MECC was founded creators of Lemonade Stand (’73) and Oregon Trail (’74)

1984 – The Apple Macintosh computer is developed. The ration of computers to students in US schools is 1 – 92